Description
Eleven original case studies make up this volume on sustainable development in Africa, carefully selected from presentations at a series of Sustainable Development Workshops organised by eight partner universities. The book is one answer to the critical appeal for greater research efforts aimed at understanding Africa’s challenges as they pertain to poverty reduction and climate change. Its contributors include faculty and graduates of the three master’s programmes in Sustainable Urban Development, Sustainable Integrated Rural Development and Mining and Mineral Resources coordinated by the eight partner African universities who make up the Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) initiative. This initiative is administered by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in Tokyo, Japan.
The volume is part of the ESDA book series that serves primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa. It also seeks to inform policy initiatives on development issues on the continent.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction by Masafumi Nagao, Jewette Masinja & Alhassan Amin
Chapter 2
Rural Development and Household Livelihood: Lessons and Perspectives from Nigeria by Janice E. Olawoye
Chapter 3
Assessing Rural Livelihoods Under a Changing Environment: A Case Study of Wa West, Upper West Region, Ghana by Seyram Kofi Loh, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng & Kwabena Gyekye-Awere
Chapter 4
Impact of Climate Change and Farmers’ Perspectives on Food Security and Policy Implications for Adaptation in Ghana by Raymond Abudu Kasei, Daniel Tutu Benefor, Benjamin Delali Dovie & Nabilse Cuthbert Kaba
Chapter 5
Women Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Variability Derivatives in Savannah Ecological Zone, Ghana by Yiridomoh Y. Gordon; Appiah D. Odame & Owusu Victor
Chapter 6
Contract Farming and Adoption of Improved Maize Production Technologies in Northern Region, Ghana by Musah Abdul-Rahman, Samuel A. Donkoh, Isaac G.K. Ansah & Iddrisu Yahaya
Chapter 7
Urbanisation and Household Food Security in Nairobi, Kenya by Samuel Owuor
Chapter 8
Livelihood Sustainability in Urban Informal Settlements: The Case of Innovation by Women Entrepreneurs in Nairobi, Kenya by Bula Hannah Orwa, Ngigi David and Murigi Elishiba
Chapter 9
Sustainable Urban Metabolism: The Case of Air Quality in the City of Nairobi by Nzioka John Muthama
Chapter 10
The Contribution of Mining to Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6): Case Studies from South Africa by Jennifer Broadhurst
Chapter 11
Circular Economy Local or Global? The Case of the South African Iron and Steel Scrap Industry by Takunda Y. Chitaka, Harro von Blottnitz & Brett Cohen
Chapter 12
Potential Industrial Symbiosis Between the Mining and Cement Industries in Zambia by Evans Musonda
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